News :: 19th Biennale of Sydney Public Program

The 19th Biennale of Sydney have announced their public program and highlights for this year’s festival and it’s looking pretty good. If you’ve ever wanted to witness a symphony orchestra soundtracking the life cycle of a fly..

Review :: The Shadow King – Sydney Festival

To take a Shakespearean tragedy and transform it into a contemporary story about indigenous Australia is a pretty big feat, but one that co-creators Tom E. Lewis and Michael Kantor have nailed.

Winners :: 2013 FBi SMAC Awards

What a night! And the winners of Sydney Music, Art and Culture are…

SMAC Of The Year :: Lisa Havilah

In 2013, our SMAC of the year acknowledges one of our city’s most dynamic and hard-working cultural figures. Someone who has transformed spaces we had forgotten into spaces that push artistic boundaries.

Culture Guide :: Water births, wild things & reggae

Bring on Summer with the Foreigndub Reggae Carnival Market Day, the Dulwich Hill Village Fair, a water birth, the theatrical doco Beautiful One Day and the launch of new creative initiative Free the Wild

Preview :: Performance Space – You’re History

30. That ripe, beautiful age of experience where you know what you want, know how to get it, and don’t need to worry about puberty getting in the way. Performance Space is turning it. Come party.

FBi Presents :: About An Hour

The festival within the Festival, About an Hour is back for another long weekend of 60-minute-ish morsels. More than 35 performances will pop up at Carriageworks, giving maximum bang for your Festival buck.

FBi Turns 10 :: Divoom Party Room Interviews

After the best birthday we could have dreamed of, we’ve got some little thankyou presents for you: interviews from the party room with The Presets, Urthboy, Seekae, Midnight Juggernauts and more!

Culture Guide :: Art & About, Story Club and Birthday LOLs

This week’s culture guide picks include storytelling in Surry Hills, pitching ideas for a better Sydney (with a free drink in hand) and a very special FBi edition of The Laugh Stand. Go on, get cultured!

FBi Turns 10 Artist Profile :: Mulga

If you come to our birthday party next weekend, you’re in for a treat. A big, bright and bearded treat in the form of pipe-smoking, bling-clad gorillas. These are some of the characters dreamed up by Sydney artist, Joel Moore, AKA Mulga. He also wrote us a poem.